Bill Text: TX SB401 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to a notification requirement if a school counselor is not assigned to a public school campus.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-05-29 - Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal [SB401 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB401-Engrossed.html
| By: Lucio, West | S.B. No. 401 | |
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| relating to a notification requirement if a school counselor is not | ||
| assigned to a public school campus. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 33, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 33.008 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 33.008. PARENTAL NOTIFICATION CONCERNING SCHOOL | ||
| COUNSELORS. (a) If a public school, including an open-enrollment | ||
| charter school, does not have a full-time school counselor | ||
| certified under Subchapter B, Chapter 21, assigned to the campus | ||
| for more than 30 consecutive instructional days during the same | ||
| school year, notice of the absence of a school counselor must be | ||
| posted on the Internet website of: | ||
| (1) the school district; and | ||
| (2) the school, if the school maintains an Internet | ||
| website. | ||
| (b) The district and the school shall post the notice | ||
| required by Subsection (a) not later than the 30th instructional | ||
| day after the first day the school does not have a full-time school | ||
| counselor assigned to the campus. | ||
| (c) The district and the school shall: | ||
| (1) make a good faith effort to ensure that the notice | ||
| required by this section is provided in a bilingual form; and | ||
| (2) retain a copy of any notice provided under this | ||
| section. | ||
| (d) The commissioner may adopt necessary rules regarding | ||
| the notice required by this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2013-2014 | ||
| school year. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
